Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Hampstead theatre, LondonIn Sarah Power’s emotionally acute three-hander, 17-year-old Bo struggles to keep her father’s alcoholism a secret from her new college friend
It’s a familiar …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMMonday, July 8, 2024
With manga circus, a Jaffa Cake musical, silly science and a llama adventure, there is something to entertain audiences of all ages this summer
The jaw-dropping, dreamlike animations of 1927…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMFriday, July 5, 2024
Audiences step out of their comfort zone at this annual extravaganza in the historic old town of the Swiss city, where the shows are staged in eye-catching settings
Lausanne has been the off…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMMonday, July 1, 2024
This month’s picks include a Starlight Express intro for kids, a rollicking wedding play at the National and an explosive hour of dance
Micheál Mac Liammóir’s 1960 solo show interweave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMFriday, June 28, 2024
The side-splitting Something Rotten! fondly mocks Shakespeare and musicals at the annual arts jamboree celebrated for both. It is a witty accompaniment to fresh takes on Romeo and Juliet, Tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThursday, June 27, 2024
Savoy theatre, London Plastics and fellow students give high-grade performances but the songs and production don’t get quite enough As
It’s 20 years since Tina Fey’s sharp-tongued tale…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMFriday, June 21, 2024
Nicholas Hytner has shared details of his forthcoming production, which will give the actor his highest profile Shakespeare role to date
Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey is to play Richard II …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMMonday, June 3, 2024
The Doctor Who star’s performance coincides with David Tennant’s Macbeth and Ncuti Gatwa appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest
Jodie Whittaker is returning to the stage for the fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMPolka theatre, LondonPalaeontologist Jakob Vinther joins a lively group of musicians for this gig-theatre production based on his groundbreaking research
Adaptations are a safe bet in childr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMFriday, May 31, 2024
This month’s roundup includes the versatile actor’s 75th birthday show, Succession’s Harriet Walter playing Lorca’s matriarch and supreme showman Hugh Jackman in the classic musical
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMMonday, May 27, 2024
The Winter’s Tale is retold with a virtual reality plot set in Silicon Valley and hardly any lines from the original, staged at a bold Latvian theatre elevating English talent
John Malkovi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMMonday, May 20, 2024
Theatre Royal PlymouthDrew McOnie’s version of the Oscar-winner is a visual treat, with expressive physical movement, lustrous dance routines – and an irrepressibly waggy puppet dog
Ligh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Actors to play the lead roles in Matthew Warchus’s centenary West End revival of Seán O’Casey’s Irish civil war classic
Sarah Snook has just finished her London theatre run in The Pic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMMinerva theatre, ChichesterWrithing and retching while sandwiched between spectators, revellers navigate class, sex and power at Miss Julie’s 18th birthday celebration
The Minerva’s last…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, May 3, 2024
Matthew Dunster, who directed Allen in her West End debut 2:22: A Ghost Story, will write and direct the show for Bath’s Ustinov Studio next year
Lily Allen is to play Hedda Gabler in a ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThe pair, whose final season of the hit horror-comedy will air on the BBC this month, say the West End production will feature familiar characters and fresh surprises
As the ninth and final …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, May 2, 2024
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterThis timely return of Lynn Nottage’s 2015 play that anticipated Trump’s presidency has powerful performances despite never finding the right rhythm
Alth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Musicals, Shakespeare and multiple versions of Nick Payne’s multiverse drama Constellations are among May’s digital theatre highlights
One of the most celebrated new British musicals in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMMonday, April 29, 2024
Doctor Who star will play Algernon in the ‘hilariously subversive’ comedy, said artistic director Rufus Norris
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa is to make his debut at the National Theatre in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Forbes Masson stars in Gary McNair’s version of the gothic novella, Tim Key joins Kitson in an Old Vic two-hander and Jason Manford celebrates all musicals great and small
Robert Louis Ste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, March 25, 2024
Irish actor awarded prize for playing every role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, following his win at Critics’ Circle film awards
Andrew Scott has been named best actor at the Critics’ Circl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMA 50th-anniversary concert in London celebrates the unlikely show about the son of a holy Roman emperor that became one of Broadway’s biggest hits
In the 2019 bio-series Fosse/Verdon, Sam …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMThursday, March 21, 2024
The play, adapted by Robert Icke from both parts of Henry IV, stars McKellen as John Falstaff for the first time in his career and will take in Bristol, Birmingham and Newcastle after its We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonFreestyling cyclists serve around the cast in Lucy Cuthbertson’s shrewd production aimed at younger audiences
When Shakespeare’s star-crossed tragedy was at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
As he stages Shakespeare’s bracing tragedy with a cast who share the main role, the choreographer and his company’s managing director Iiris Autio discuss the upswing in Finnish dance
Is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMSunday, March 17, 2024
Company founder Felix Barrett says Viola’s Room, written by Daisy Johnson, will be an audio-driven production perfect for date nights
Punchdrunk’s last immersive production, The Burnt Ci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMWednesday, March 13, 2024
Ambassadors theatre, LondonA timid midwesterner adopts a geezerish British persona in David Cale’s often shrewdly observed yet meandering monologue
Harry Clark is the former lance corporal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
Polka theatre, LondonA hip-hop take on the tragedy finds the feud blowing up on social media and the balcony scene remixed for FaceTime but it lacks pathos
Two hours’ stage traffic becomes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AMMonday, March 11, 2024
Pickett’s ‘very funny and very angry’ play 1536 follows three women as they discuss the arrest of Anne Boleyn
The British playwright Ava Pickett has won this year’s Susan Smith Black…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Home, ManchesterIn Eve Steele’s affecting comedy, mental health is explored through Jennifer Jackson’s inspired movement direction
Playwrights are naturally drawn to the brain and heart.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
New Wolsey theatre, IpswichWith its irresistible harmonies, this comedy about a blood-guzzling plant has plenty to savour but it lacks satirical punch and menace
‘Feed me, Seymour!” Alan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PM 
